Learning Tiffen Dfx

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Released

12/5/2014

Tiffen Dfx offers a suite of professional tools for both photographers and videographers. You can repair images using techniques that mirror traditional filters and gels, and you can digitally relight video in post for dramatic or subtle effects. In this course Richard Harrington covers workflows for both photo and video assets. Learn how to work with Tiffen's extensive collection of filters, virtual lights, film stock, and presets, and start giving your images and footage the kind of treatments you never thought were possible outside of the studio.

Topics include:

Running Tiffen Dfx as a video or photo plugin

Choosing a category and a filter

Working with filter presets

Limiting filters with masks

Masking for precision

Processing film with Film Lab filters

Using the HFX Diffusion filters

Correcting color and lens issues

Refining light

Using special effects

Skill Level Appropriate for all

3h 58m

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- Hi, my name is Rich Harringtonand welcome to this course on Tiffen Dfx software.This is a unique piece of softwarethat I particularly like using inside of my digital toolbox.You see, it?s one of the few pieces of softwarethat's available to run three distinct ways.Now, you can run this as a standalone piece of software,but what I particularly like isthat it works equally well inside of photo editing toolslike Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture,as well as video editing tools like Premiere Pro,Final Cut Pro, and Avid.You can also use it with motion graphics applications.

This particular tool is truly useful,and what I like about it is it takesa lot of things I know about traditional production.You see, if you have a photography backgroundor a video lighting background,you're going to find intuitive things that just make sense.The ability to use digital equivalentsof glass filters, flags, nets, virtual lightsthat simulate traditional lighting techniques.This is a really cool packageand it?s got standout featureslike great film stocks and a wide collectionof presets to get you started.

And the best part is as you're working across photoand video applications,you can use the same user interfaceand even often exchange presets.Now, even if you don't have accessto this software be sure to downloadthe trial version so you can really get hands on with it.This is a fun piece of software that really expandsthe digital toolbox for any visual artist.